INQUIRER EDITORIAL: When Filipino "drug mules" in China or lawbreakers in Saudi Arabia are sentenced to death, the Philippine government sends a high-ranking official, even the Vice President on occasion, to delay the day of execution or to offer so-called blood money. The unfortunate actions taken by Kiram's followers in Lahad Datu made Malaysia's full-scale military response all but inevitable; they were men (and women) who had invited themselves to their own beheading. But it took the Aquino administration some three weeks before dispatching Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario to Kuala Lumpur. It is hard to understand this almost lackadaisical approach.
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